New Video: "Cocaine & the Contras" - Robert Parry & Gary Webb
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana.
In association with justicevision.org, 911blogger.com will be putting some of their great documentary footage on the web. We're going to start with some footage of Gary Webb, a courageous journalist who exposed CIA connections to the crack cocaine epidemic in the United States. In this first video from December 1996, Webb was still employed by the San Jose Mercury News. You can read his original series which began his journey into Deep Politics, over at Narconews.com. This video, "Cocaine & the Contras", was filmed at the Midnight Special Bookstore in Santa Monica, CA, a few months after his story broke. He is accompanied by independent journalist, Robert Parry, whom Webb describes as a "pioneer" in this area. Robert Parry's website is Consortium News.com.
Gary Webb's voice was silenced in 2004, and was ruled a suicide. However, his story will still be heard.
DVD available from http://justicevision.org
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Full video in 4 parts:
Part One of Four:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4014940824188902302&hl=en
Part Two of Four:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8562609315164744648&hl=en
Part Three of Four:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3209686665409184055&hl=en
Part Four of Four:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3075506208381555606&hl=en
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YouTube preview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUWVmcIQi9g
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O/T UK Chief who "cleared" Britain of helping CIA kidnap people
for "extraodinary reditions" goes for a walk, & turns up dead! (Did he know too much???)
http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/UK_top_cop_who_led_CIA_probe_found_...
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He probably slit his wrists after being killed by undigested drugs ..
After my country joined the coalition of willing idiots the police confiscate 400-600% more coke .
What a coincidence ?
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"Listen carefully now : DO NOT DESTROY OIL-WELLS" Dubya
Has Parry done very much
on 9-11 in particular? I'm wondering, because of course the matter of manipulation of public opinion is pertinent to 9-11 truth, but this stuff has been hashed around for centuries, and would seem peripheral to the matters at hand. I would like to see something less safe and more of substance in Parry's site, if one can direct me to such material.
No, he hasn't.
At the Project Censored meeting last October, Parry fielded a question from the audience about 9/11.
Parry stated that he did not believe that 9/11 was an inside job. He had a very dismissive look on his face, like it was an outrageous question.
Of course, I was shocked.
MP3 Audio Clip - Former DEA chief on NPR
Wednesday October 31, 2007
Former DEA Agent Turned Author Celerino Castilla Indicts George H.W. Bush for Drug Trafficking on Chicago Public Radio
* source = http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Program_WV.aspx?episode=14289
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More MP3 Audio Clips >
"COCAINE"
North Texans for 911 Truth (new site)
http://tellstruth.webs.com/index.htm
Gary Webb will be remembered
Thanks for the link. I'm definitely going to read the series and watch the video. Gary Webb and Michael Ruppert stand out in breaking up the government suppressed truth about drugs.
...don't believe them!
Current economy and drugs
Didn't think this is yet ready for its own post, and since drug smuggling is related to the economy, I thought this may go here, please any feedback would be appreciated.
With the following two articles about the M3 money indicator that is no longer followed.
Here and Here.
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2008/03/root-of-economic-crisis-dis...
http://www.inflationdata.com/inflation/Inflation_Articles/M3_Money_suppl...
In first blog, there is a link to http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/discm3.htm leading to the federal reserve Discontinuance of M3 and why. In it, the federal reverse has stated that the 'cost' of collecting M3 outweigh the benefits. As if we really believe that they are cost-cutting a key indicator, yet have 2 trillion for wars. Anyway, taking out the M3 is HUGE and has severe consequences.
First, M1 and M2 are chump change compared with the big potatos M3. M3 is the sum of M1 and M2 (which mean nothing because you can just subtract M1 and M2) and the 'big money'. So M3 is actually the monitor (or was) on the large denomination ($100,000 or more) time deposits, balances in institutional money funds, repurchase liabilities issued by depository institutions, and Eurodollars held by U.S. residents at foreign branches of U.S. banks in the U.K. and Canada.
The assumption that Bernanke tries to "sell" to the American public is that the M1 and M2 already show anything that the M3 might tell. This is misleading and is only true if the large money (that comprises M3) stay in the market to become M1 or M2 on next years report.
The gist is that the government can pump an "unknown" amount of money into the market, as long as that money can be "removed" or withdrawn from the market within the year, it will NOT show up in the M1 or M2 numbers the following year.
However, as we see, the value of the dollar is falling. This is an indirect indicator how much M3 they are pumping into the market. And since the American people are unaware of this new strategy (at least new to me) then you can have (psy op?) economists saying it's great, and others saying the opposite, and the only indicator is the falling dollar, which can also be twisted that a devalued currency good for foreign investment in the U.S. Though in reality it is a hidden tax on the income made in a year as prices are rising domestically, and on a global perspective, this hidden tax (inflation) is not only a tax on the income of 'that particular year' of income, but on ALL income ever made.
This unreportable money pumping is generating a lot of volatility in the market. On the one hand stocks rise because there seems to be a lot of "new" money into the market. Then the market realizes that it is from "printed" M3 money, which drops the value of the dollar (remember Dana Perino “Under Strict Instructions To Not Talk About The Dollar”). How long this will continue seems to be the remainder of the Bush administration, but how effective this strategy will be remains to be seen. How low can the dollar go? And at one point do all Americans say that their money is only worth something domestically and worthless anywhere else. As Bernanke has said he is only concerned the mandate of the federal reserve, which is to maintain price stability, and to his mind means "consumer prices" or the CPI. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gldETRlhiXk
Now remember, the US has only one product that it produces with a high profit margin, weapons. So 9/11 had its purpose, intentionally or by accident (though highly probable with a growing body of evidence on purpose, e.g. PNAC). Yet oddly, either in 'wartime', obviously, by a tense global environment (just sell to both sides of a conflict or for self defense) or in 'peacetime' you can produce weapons. The only trick for peactime weapon production is the need a formidable enemy (explained below).
If a Republican gets elected then in order to support the economy the middle east will continue to be unstable, and the US will continue to "sell" its high profit weapons to both sides while at the same time creating profitable weapons for its own defense from those scary "terrorists".
If a Democrat is elected as under Clinton the process can be continued, if the Democrats initiate peace. As long as you have a formidable enemy (as we did against the USSR during the cold war). A peacetime economy needs a formidable enemy such as China or Russia to ignite another Cold War, or arms race to justify spending on more weapons, 'try' to outspend the other side, and boost the economy.
Whether the Bush administration sees this dilemma and is prepping the "formidable enemies" to sustain a new cold war against the US by devaluing our currency and giving them the economic ability through elevating theirs (China, Russia, or the EU) time will tell.
Factored in in both scenarios, is who has control of the 'dirty money' both from drug smuggling of Afghanistan's products and in pilfering of oil reserve profits from our new conquered imperialized land of Iraqi oil. This dirty or money laundered money is then pumped into the economy and makes corporations net income look more attractive. Seems no one does this better than the 'C-ocaine IA', the 'Al-(CIA)da "scary" terrorists', or propaganda to support all this through the 'CNN, CIA News Network'.
And the only thing Bush is doing is to attempt to invade Iran.
Ron Paul - 2/17/2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4kxTkhwR_Q
Ron Paul opening statement to Bernanke at FSC - 2-27-2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EQ1sg6GhZE
This was...
Excellent. Hearing about Lee Hamilton, Mena, Arkansas, Ricky Ross, the team set up to attack journalists who might uncover something, etc...
Why isn't Dick Cheney in prison?